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Please help me to identify this actor!

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MrsD28 · 07/10/2020 14:15

Sat next to him in a cafe yesterday... he was waving at baby DD so I got a good look at him, but can't for the life of me remember who he is. It is driving me mad! Please help!

British (for some reason I think he might be Scottish, but not sure), male, mostly TV actor rather than films, in dramas rather than comedies, not soaps (I don't watch them so he wouldn't have been familiar to me), slim face, attractive but not conventionally good looking or hunky, in his late 40s or early 50s. Think John Hannah or John Sim type (though he is not either of those!). I feel as if I have seen him play a police officer, but I have been googling police dramas and he hasn't appeared in any cast lists.

Aaargh! Help!

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honigbutter · 07/10/2020 16:21

Oh, nice! I love Derek Riddell!

CormoranStrike · 07/10/2020 16:21

Oh wow, excellent detective work here.

GertrudeCB · 07/10/2020 16:21

Paul Higgins ? images.app.goo.gl/w4n6R5MvrSRCmba16

FenellaMaxwell · 07/10/2020 16:21

Ah, I miss actor central - we used to live there! Grin I was going to suggest Derek Riddell as hell used to live near us before we left London.

icelollycraving · 07/10/2020 16:22

Weirdly I knew I was right Grin

doadeer · 07/10/2020 16:31

After all that I don't even know who he is 🤣

LizzieMacQueen · 07/10/2020 16:34

Oh he was the baddie in the Missing. The 2nd series I think.

DuckyMcDuck · 07/10/2020 16:54

Now I'm wondering where in North London you mean, can you let us know that please?

Clawdy · 07/10/2020 17:00

He was in the Shetland tv series too.

LovelyLovelyMe · 07/10/2020 17:58

He was Sarah Lancashire's husband in Happy Valley and he is very nice!

MrsD28 · 07/10/2020 18:00

Thank you and thank you and thank you again Smile. I knew that he was Scottish! Just couldn’t place him. Sorry about not providing hair details - he was wearing a hat and had lockdown beard so didn’t match how I have seen him on screen.

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HaggisBurger · 07/10/2020 18:17

And now we know that he lovely and waves at babies - he gets the MN seal of approval. Good police work there @icelollycraving 🏅

MadamBatty · 07/10/2020 18:30

This thread is like when Mrs Doyle guesses the name of Fr Todd

mogtheexcellent · 07/10/2020 21:19

ooh he was the baddie in the second series of The Missing...

TheCunkOfPhilomena · 07/10/2020 21:28

Christopher Eccleston?

TheCunkOfPhilomena · 07/10/2020 21:29

Oh bugger, must read full thread!

JorisBonson · 18/10/2020 11:17

@MadamBatty

This thread is like when Mrs Doyle guesses the name of Fr Todd
I've just spit my coffee out
MorrisZapp · 18/10/2020 11:22

Derek Riddell was a hot doctor in that nurses programme. No Angels? Anyway last I knew he lived in Portobello, Edinburgh. I've seen him on buses etc. Maybe he's moved or was on a job or something.

MorrisZapp · 18/10/2020 11:23

I'd break my 'never shag anyone called Derek' rule if the need arose.

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